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Category: Government
June 28, 2012
Dashed expectations
ken n 1: range of what one can know or understand; “beyond my ken” [syn: cognizance] 2: the range of vision; “out of sight of land” [syn: sight] For some reason beyond my current ken, I expected more from SCOTUS today on their ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Healthcare act. To say I’m […]
June 16, 2012
Favorite news sources
In my RSS feed (I use Bloglines as I’m still boycotting Google) I have over 30 hard and soft news sources. I can get away with having this many because most don’t produce a lot of data daily. For example, one of my favorite singers, Diana Krall, adds concert dates every couple months. I subscribe […]
June 16, 2012
Where the news is
Over the last six months the way I get my news has changed. I used to be a devotee of Fox, but the cancellation of Judge Napolitano’s Freedom Watch was the end of a slow change. Napolitano’s show was the one I would watch faithfully. Fox’s cancellation signaled a shift by Fox toward a more […]
April 24, 2012
Going postal
The USPS is facing big problems. They can’t afford to meet their pension obligations, a problem which is the result of poor management (nobody can do poor management quite like the government), union manipulation (the root of the pension problem in the first place) and a really poor business model. So, what to do, what […]
April 4, 2012
Assigning homework
If you’ve been following the news, you know SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) had hearings last week on three things involving the Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act. On day one they heard arguments to determine if they could hear arguments . . . it was one of those “it’s a tax!”, “no, […]
April 1, 2012
Still riding the “ain’t no such thing” global warming horse
The rain can stop any time now. If it doesn’t, I’m considering ark building as a potential hobby. There’s lots going on in the global warming debate. Much of the steam has seeped out of the global warmists’ engine. Poland, among other EU eastern border countries, has told the rest of the EU to eff […]
March 27, 2012
On Nancy Reagan and Jane Fonda
Does it bother you at all that avowed socialist Jane Fonda is slated to play the iconic Nancy Reagan? I have to say . . . it bothers me a lot. Not only because I don’t want the nation’s memory of Mrs. Reagan soiled by being associated with such an un-American person, but because I […]
March 24, 2012
What’s in it for me?
Are you a fully actualized citizen? You can determine your status by answering one question. When you reflect on the federal government and ponder “what’s in it for me”, what are your expectations? What is it you expect the government to do for you? If you haven’t really studied government, how it was designed to […]
December 3, 2011
Just when you thought the TSA couldn’t possibly get any stupider . . .
. . . they do. The whole story is here => http://reason.com/blog/2011/12/02/the-fashion-police-aka-tsa For those of you needing a definition of “replica” . . . replica n : copy that is not the original; something that has been replicated [syn: reproduction] Now compare that to bas-relief. bas-relief \Bas`-re*lief”\, n. [F. bas-relief; bas law + relief raised work, […]
November 18, 2011
Hearings on tax reform
I watched the Senate’s hearing on “Could Tax Reform Boost Business Investment and Job Creation?“. It’s fascinating. I’ve noted the important parts below. Listen to any bits that interest you. There are four tax reform presenters (Entin, Stone, Mastromarco and Hanlon) and about a dozen lawmakers listening and answering questions. Each presenter has five minutes […]
